"Why Is It That We Often Wind Up Regretting The Past? -A Great Lesson In Faith"

Magic Pebbles
By: John Wayne Schlatter

One night a group of nomads were preparing to retire for the
evening, when suddenly they were surrounded by a great light.

They knew they were in the presence of a celestial being.

With great anticipation, they awaited a heavenly message of
great importance that they knew must be especially for them.

Finally, the voice spoke.

"Gather as many pebbles as you can. Put them in your saddle
bags. Travel a day's journey. Tomorrow night you will be
both glad and sad."

Afterwards, the nomads shared their disappointment and anger
with each other. They had expected the revelation of a great
universal truth that would enable them to create wealth,
health and purpose for the world. But instead they were
given a menial task that made no sense to them at all.

However, the memory of the brilliance of their visitor
caused each one to pick up a few pebbles and deposit them in
their saddle bags while voicing their displeasure.

They traveled a day's journey. That night, while making
camp, they reached into their saddle bags and discovered
that the pebbles they had gathered the night before had
turned into beautiful and brilliant diamonds!

Indeed, they were both glad and sad, just as the voice had
promised.

They were glad they now had beautiful and valuable
diamonds. They were sad they had not gathered more pebbles
when they had the opportunity.

And the moral here is, take what you can every day and be as
hardworking and positive about it all. You never know where
or when you will reap the benefits, or how great those
benefits will be. Don't regret not taking more later down
the road